No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

An index is a great leveller.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The little man is still a man.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.